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Pair of baluster vases and covers
Marked by: Pieter Adriaensz Kocks, Proprietor, Greek A factory (active 1701–1703)
Dutch (Delft)
about 1700-1715
Medium/Technique
Tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Height x width x diameter: 44 x 22.9 x 16.5 cm (17 5/16 x 9 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
The G. Ephis Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated anonymously, Charles Bain Hoyt Fund, John H. and Ernestine A. Payne Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, William Francis Warden Fund, Tamara Petrosian Davis Sculpture Fund, John Lowell Gardner Fund, Seth K. Sweetser Fund, H. E. Bolles Fund, and funds by exchange from the Kiyi and Edward M. Pflueger Collection-Bequest of Edward M. Pflueger and Gift of Kiyi Powers Pflueger
Accession Number2012.613.1a-b - 2a-b
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionPair of large covered vases with domed, topped with a lotus bud finial, decorated in red, blue, and gold polychrome decoration in the Japanese Imari style featuring a pheonix perched on a flowering rock surrounded by Chinese birds, peonies, and Japanese-style fans. One vase is marked with conjoined "PAK" in overglaze iron-red.
Marks
One vase is marked with conjoined "PAK" in overglaze iron-red, the other unmarked.
InscriptionsMarked vase has two labels: "Collection G. Ephis / DEL 276" and "G. Lefebvre Antiquaire. 24, rue du Bac, Paris"
The unmarked vase also has Lefebvre label as above, and "Collection G. Ephis / DEL 277"
The unmarked vase also has Lefebvre label as above, and "Collection G. Ephis / DEL 277"
Provenance1982, sold by Lefebvre et Fils (dealer), Paris, to the G. Ephis collection (private collector), France; 2012, sold by the G. Ephis collection to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 24, 2012.